Every time I try to download an app that’s probably around 1MB or more. I receive an insufficient storage message. The phone says I have 104 MB free on internal storage and 2GB on my SDCard. Why does this happen?

Mischa Deden

October 22, 2012 at 7:37 pm

It has, of course, to do with the internal memory of your phone.

Normally all programs and data will be installed in internal memory.
Android apps are in 2 flavors. Normal programs written in C/C++ which are already compiled (like .exe in Windows) the other one is written java and is compiled in real time.

The compiled code is placed in the dalvik-cache

Al this is placed in /data of your internal memory.

You can use A2SD but it moves some parts to the sdcard.

Another option is to use a custom rom and use an ext3 partition.
This partition will be mounted as /data providing you with enough space for all your apps.

Just look at XDA and the sub forum of your phone

sai

October 3, 2012 at 8:54 am

Hello iam using sony ericsson walkman live with android 2.3.4, apps are occupying more space i.e 300mb and total is 420mb how can i move apps to sdcard i.e 4gb please give in brief and is this effects the performance of my mobile and i also installed apps 2 sd app from market but no use to me.

susendeep dutta

October 20, 2012 at 2:57 pm

Apps2SD can work if and only if app developers has worked on the app to be moved to SD card.

Harron Subhani

July 31, 2012 at 1:47 pm

clean memory card,unnecessary messages,apps and look for the speed up factor.

VS Vishnu

August 24, 2012 at 1:41 pm

memory card cleaning wont help in this..

Kyem Ghosh

May 18, 2012 at 6:47 pm

as it is a android device, I'll recommend you to flash back to the factory settings as said by ha14

ha14

May 18, 2012 at 11:37 am

Settings->Applications->Unknown Sources should be checked.
you can also try to use a cleaner to remove old cache...;

try a soft reset and see the problem solved, if not hard reset (first do a backup of files since will be deleted during the operation)

Susendeep Dutta

May 18, 2012 at 4:18 am

You're receiving this error because your phone's internal memory is in the verge of getting filled.It happens because messages,apps(widgets especially) uses internal memory.You can free up your phone's internal memory by moving some apps to memory card(only compatible apps can be moved),deleting some messages and uninstalling those apps which you're not going to use in future.

If you constantly face low memory issues then choose all-in-one apps only i.e which performs various functions.For example,if you like to read articles from various sites like engadget and other sites and you install their respective apps in your phone,it'll consume more memory.Using a news reader app like Pulse will solve your problem.

Nagendra kumar Gummapu

May 18, 2012 at 9:10 am

hey susendeep Dutta thanks for your kind help.... but still i didnt got a correct solution for this. Is there any other way so i can install app forcely in SD card or by rooting the device